Could taking out cyber-security insurance help you get a seat on the board?

Information security professionals have been bemoaning their lack of representation at board level for some time. In an age where the volume and sophistication of cyber-threats is rocketing, not least due to the emergence of the Internet of Things, which, it seems, is destined to assign everything, including the clothes you stand up in, an IP address, infosec really must be taken more seriously, so the argument goes.